Leon Trotsky lays dying in hospital in Mexico City after the exiled Russian Bolshevik leader was savagely attacked and fatally wounded at his home in Mexico by a man named Frank Jackson who Trotsky had invited in for tea, 20th August...More

Leon Trotsky lays dying in hospital in Mexico City after the exiled Russian...Leon Trotsky lays dying in hospital in Mexico City after the exiled Russian Bolshevik leader was savagely attacked and fatally wounded at his home in Mexico by a man named Frank Jackson who Trotsky had invited in for tea, 20th August 1940. Jackson, who used an ice pick in the attack, turned out to be NKVD agent Ramon Mercader.LessMore

Russian communist revolutionary leader, Vladimir Lenin (1879 - 1924), giving a speech in to men of the Red Army leaving for the front, during the Polish-Soviet War, Sverdlov Square (now Theatre Square), Moscow, 5th May 1920. On the...More